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Exploring UFOs and Extraterrestrial LifeTue, 31 Mar 2015 21:47:43 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Texas man convinced he captured UFO in photohttp://www.openminds.tv/texas-man-convinced-he-captured-ufo-in-photo/32521
http://www.openminds.tv/texas-man-convinced-he-captured-ufo-in-photo/32521#commentsTue, 10 Mar 2015 19:28:18 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=32521After reviewing pictures he took on his phone while waiting in traffic in Magnolia, Texas, Alfonso Servin says he spotted a UFO that he had not seen while taking the picture

]]>After reviewing pictures he took on his phone while waiting in traffic in Magnolia, Texas, Alfonso Servin says he spotted a UFO that he had not seen while taking the picture. He is convinced what he captured in his picture is a UFO, and it is not the first time he has seen one.

According to Your Houston News, on Friday, February 20, 2015, Servin was stuck in traffic after leaving his job at a grocery store in Magnolia. After 30 minutes of sitting in his car he began to get bored, so he started taking pictures with his phone.

Alfonso Servin of Waller took this photo on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015. He believes the object is a UFO. (Credit: Alfonso Servin/Your Houston News)

Later, when he reviewed those pictures, he noticed a small white object in the sky. He zoomed in on the object and was surprised by what he saw. He told Your Houston News, “I found out it was a UFO; it absolutely was one.”

He says this is not the first time he has seen a UFO, in fact, it is the fifth. Servin says he saw two in one week last November, and he is absolutely convinced it is a UFO in his recent photo.

Servin says he has not found any other reports of UFOs on that day in that area.

There is one UFO report on that day in the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database, but it is about 300 miles to the west in the town of Asherton. That witness says that he and other oil field workers saw “bright orbs moving across the sky.”

He says he and others took photos and video, but did not submit them to MUFON. He also says they heard a loud boom prior to seeing the objects.

Map showing Magnolia’s proximity to Houston. (Credit: Google Maps)

Either way, Servin is convinced he captured something mysterious in his picture. He says he thinks people are afraid to report what they see because they are afraid of being considered “crazy.”

Your News Houston referenced a survey by National Geographic that found that 36% of Americans believe in UFOs, and nearly half said they were unsure. Only 17% said they were convinced UFOs did not exist.

Servin says he is not trying to make others believe in UFOs, but he is trying to share his photo. Your Houston News wrote, “[Servin] feels the people of Magnolia have a right to know what was in their city that day.”

]]>Two Texas witnesses northbound along I-35 between Austin and Dallas reported watching “two bright, shiny cylinder or cigar-shaped objects with rounded noses and tails” cross the highway ahead of them at approximately 1,000 feet, according to testimony in Case 63509 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The reporting witness, with his wife in the front passenger seat, was driving between 75 and 80 mph in perfect, blue sky weather in 54 degrees, with 30 to 40 vehicles immediately ahead of them in traffic, at 9:45 a.m. on February 19, 2015.

The couple was north of Georgetown, TX, and had just passed Exit 268.

“The two objects crossed the highway in front of us at an elevation of approximately 1,000 feet,” the witness stated. “They were perfectly in-line with one another—approximately 3,000 feet apart. It’s like they were flying on a stretched out wire—perfectly in-line with one another.”

The witness were northbound along I-35 near Walburg, TX, when the two cylinder-shaped UFOs were seen crossing over the highway. (Credit: Google)

The witness described the objects.

“They were identical in size, shape, and color. The shape and color of these two objects was contrasted against the blue sky. They were shiny—a bright white. There were no discernible wings, tails, landing gear, propellers, jet engines, windows, or lights. They were two cylindrical or cigar-shaped objects with rounded nose and tails.”

The witness described their movements.

“I believe the objects were two-to-three-miles ahead of us when I first saw them. They crossed just above the tree line traveling from west to east. They were in my field of view for five seconds and traveling at a high rate of speed.”

The witnesses’ wife was able to view the objects for a longer period of time.

“I pointed and asked my wife to look out her passenger window to see if she could see what I was watching. She watched the two objects for another 20 seconds until the topography to the east blocked her view. She said the objects did not alter their course, configuration, elevation, or speed—remaining quickly traveling to the east at a high rate of speed until they were no longer visible from her vantage point.”

The nearest town to this sighting report is Walburg, TX, an unincorporated area located at the crossroads of Farm to Market Road 972 (FM 972) and Farm to Market Road 1105 (FM 1105) in Williamson County.

The witness said there was no discernible wings, tails, landing gear, propellers, jet engines, windows, or lights on the objects. Pictured: I-35 near Walburg, TX. (Credit: Google)

Texas is currently a UFO Alert Level 5 – with 1.00 sightings per million population based on MUFON January 2015 statistics. Texas received a total of 26 UFO reports in January.

The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 4.01 or higher reports per million residents are rated an Alert 1; 3.01 – 4.0 reports are an Alert 2; 2.51 – 3.0 are an Alert 3; 2.01 – 2.5 are an Alert 4; and those states with 2.0 or lower are rated an Alert 5.

Please remember that most UFO sighting can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/two-cigar-ufos-fly-low-texas-highway/32295/feed1Border Zone UFO Festival ditches UFOshttp://www.openminds.tv/border-zone-ufo-festival-ditches-ufos/32092
http://www.openminds.tv/border-zone-ufo-festival-ditches-ufos/32092#commentsThu, 05 Feb 2015 19:53:34 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=32092This year will mark the fourth year for a UFO festival in Presidio, Texas. But 2015 is also the year that festival organizers are shifting focus away from UFOs. Presidio’s Border Zone International UFO Festival began in 2012. As the name suggests, the event was filled with UFO related presentations from researchers including Stanton Friedman, ...

]]>This year will mark the fourth year for a UFO festival in Presidio, Texas. But 2015 is also the year that festival organizers are shifting focus away from UFOs.

(Credit: Yuan Yufei/Wikimedia Commons)

Presidio’s Border Zone International UFO Festival began in 2012. As the name suggests, the event was filled with UFO related presentations from researchers including Stanton Friedman, Noe Torres, and Gilberto Rivera.

Subsequent years continued with UFO-centric programming, featuring lectures by UFO conference regulars like Travis Walton and Nick Pope.

But now, festival organizers have decided it’s time to get away from the UFO topic.

Presidio Municipal Development District executive director Brad Newton told local media outlet Big Bend Sentinel that he “hopes to orient the festival toward a more science-based event, and has even been in touch with representatives at NASA, who, according to Newton, have expressed willingness to send an astronaut for the October festival.”

Newton apparently sees a stigma attached to the term “UFO.” He points to an issue with NASA, stating, “[T]hey won’t send you an astronaut if you have UFO in your name.”

Although former NASA astrobiologist Richard Hoover recently spoke at the International UFO Congress, former NASA astronaut Story Musgrave recently spoke at the Mutual UFO Network’s symposium, and former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell will be presenting a lecture (via Skype) at the upcoming Contact in the Desert event, Newton seems to think that scientists and astronauts are deterred by the term “UFO.”

Organizers have even gone so far as to remove “UFO” from the event’s title, which is now the Texas Border Zone Dark Skies Festival. According to Big Bend Sentinel, this refers to “the Dark Skies Program at Big Bend Ranch State Park, which strives to reduce light pollution and promote stargazing within the state parks.”

“We want to concentrate more on the music, more on the science and astronomy,” Newton says, clarifying the new focus of the event.

The embarrassing topic of UFOs might not be completely gone from the festival though. Newton claims, “The paranormal will always be part of the mystery of the Big Bend and we don’t want to forget that, but it’s not the main focus.”

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/border-zone-ufo-festival-ditches-ufos/32092/feed5Multi-colored ‘bubble’ UFO photographed in Texashttp://www.openminds.tv/multi-colored-bubble-ufo-photographed-texas/31770
http://www.openminds.tv/multi-colored-bubble-ufo-photographed-texas/31770#commentsWed, 21 Jan 2015 20:32:33 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=31770A man photographed what he asserts to be a UFO floating over Crystal Beach in southeast Texas on the evening of December 11, 2014. The witness, Larry Nash, was reportedly working at a construction site in Crystal Beach when he noticed a bright object in the sky. His co-workers also reportedly observed the strange-looking UFO. ...

]]>A man photographed what he asserts to be a UFO floating over Crystal Beach in southeast Texas on the evening of December 11, 2014.

The witness, Larry Nash, was reportedly working at a construction site in Crystal Beach when he noticed a bright object in the sky. His co-workers also reportedly observed the strange-looking UFO.

“It was round in shape to the naked eye. Like a giant bubble,” he explains to local media outlet the Beaumont Enterprise.

(Credit: Larry Nash/Beaumont Enterprise)

He also describes this “bubble” UFO as having a metallic appearance.

Nash photographed the object with his phone’s camera. He asserts that the color of the UFO changed back and forth between green and purple. But, as the Beaumont Enterprise reports, “Nash said his phone’s camera didn’t do the sighting justice, saying the images don’t accurately show the changing colors.”

The witnesses continued watching the UFO for approximately 45 minutes before they were instructed to resume their work.

Some have suggested that the object in Nash’s photos is an atmospheric phenomenon known as a sundog or parhelion, which appears in the sky when sunlight shines through ice crystals in the air. But Nash is unsure about what he an his co-workers observed. He has reportedly reached out to “alien enthusiasts” for help with identifying the unusual aerial object, but that approach hasn’t been successful.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/multi-colored-bubble-ufo-photographed-texas/31770/feed3Radio DJ captures UFO on video in Amarillohttp://www.openminds.tv/radio-dj-captures-ufo-video-amarillo/29614
http://www.openminds.tv/radio-dj-captures-ufo-video-amarillo/29614#commentsTue, 19 Aug 2014 22:17:50 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=29614Dallas Chambers, a radio DJ for KISS FM 96.9 in Amarillo, Texas, captured a video of a UFO last night. He says several people were pulled over on the side of the road watching the "strange blue light dance around the sky of Amarillo."

]]>Dallas Chambers, a radio DJ for KISS FM 96.9 in Amarillo, Texas, captured a video of a UFO last night. He says several people were pulled over on the side of the road watching the “strange blue light dance around the sky of Amarillo.”

He says everyone “checking it out” was “stunned.”

Chambers also posted the video on KISS FM’s website, where he says he watched the light for “quite a while.” He also asks whether the object might have been an RC plane or helicopter.

Chambers writes, “I’d like to think it’s a UFO, and until someone comes forward saying it was them controlling an RC plane or something of that nature, that’s what I’m going to believe it is…”

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/radio-dj-captures-ufo-video-amarillo/29614/feed1Texas witness says bright UFO moved toward air force basehttp://www.openminds.tv/texas-witness-says-bright-ufo-moved-toward-air-force-base/29598
http://www.openminds.tv/texas-witness-says-bright-ufo-moved-toward-air-force-base/29598#commentsTue, 19 Aug 2014 19:01:43 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=29598A Texas witness at San Antonio reported watching a brilliantly lit UFO moving fast just east of Highway 281 north in the direction of Randolph Air Force Base about 9:30 p.m. on August 18, 2014, according to testimony in Case 59062 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. The witness was walking south ...

]]>A Texas witness at San Antonio reported watching a brilliantly lit UFO moving fast just east of Highway 281 north in the direction of Randolph Air Force Base about 9:30 p.m. on August 18, 2014, according to testimony in Case 59062 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was walking south on Stone Oak Parkway near the Arrow Hill Road intersection when an “extremely pure, brilliant white light” was seen in the sky. The witness quickly ruled out an airplane.

“I realized that the object was not a plane because it had no sound and the brilliant white lights remained as this object continued southward and out of sight,” the witness stated.

The witness was walking south on Stone Oak Parkway near the Arrow Hill Road intersection, pictured, when an ‘extremely pure, brilliant white light’ was seen in the sky. (Credit: Google)

“Logically I know I should not be so confident about the shape and size of the object because the object was against the night sky and the display of brilliantly bright, white lights which went around the object should have concealed the object. Regardless I was able to clearly make out the shape of the object.”

The witness believes the pilots of a passenger plane should have also seen the object.

“Just as the object left my sight a passenger plane approached the standard downwind leg on its approach to the San Antonio Airport. There is no doubt in my mind that the pilots would have seen this object in the night sky due to how bright the object was, and the speed in which it was traveling.”

The object made no sound and the brilliant white lights remained as it continued southward and out of sight. Pictured: Stone Oak Parkway near the Arrow Hill Road intersection. (Credit: Google)

San Antonio is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in the state of Texas, with a population of 1,409,019. Texas MUFON is investigating. Texas has a current UFO Alert Rating of 3 with a high number of recent reports nationally. Texas had 80 UFO reports in July 2014 – the 2nd highest reporting state – while California had 104 reports as the highest reporting state. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 150 or more reports for the month are rated an Alert 1; states with 100 or more reports are rated an Alert 2; 25 reports or more for the month are rated an Alert 3; 13 or more reports are rated an Alert 4; and those states with less than 13 reports for the month are an Alert 5.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/texas-witness-says-bright-ufo-moved-toward-air-force-base/29598/feed0Dozens report UFO crossing Texas skieshttp://www.openminds.tv/dozens-report-ufo-crossing-texas-skies/28925
http://www.openminds.tv/dozens-report-ufo-crossing-texas-skies/28925#commentsTue, 15 Jul 2014 21:19:43 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=28925The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) formed a STAR Team Investigation after more than 25 UFO reports from Texas over the weekend appeared to be describing the same object, according to STAR Team Manager Fletcher Gray. “We organized to cover all of the cases as a single investigation,” Gray said. “MUFON is looking at all possibilities ...

]]>The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) formed a STAR Team Investigation after more than 25 UFO reports from Texas over the weekend appeared to be describing the same object, according to STAR Team Manager Fletcher Gray.

“We organized to cover all of the cases as a single investigation,” Gray said. “MUFON is looking at all possibilities including a meteor. All we know for certain is that the object was visible for roughly 10 seconds on the night of July 12, 2014, and at about 9:10 p.m. plus/minus five minutes. The object moved from east to west at a high rate of speed, was initially seen as a single, very bright light that split into two lights, and no noise was heard. Over 25 reports have come in from almost all areas of Texas as well as Louisiana.”

Director of Research Robert Powell was investigating the meteor theory.

“This appears to have been a large meteor than entered the atmosphere somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana and then burned out just south of the Dallas-Forth Worth area as it broke into two pieces,” Powell said. “A MUFON witness in Burleson and one in Mansfield described it as going directly overhead so they should have been closest to the meteor.”

Powell referenced a meteor tracking web site.

“Here is a link to 50-plus reports to a meteor site that shows locations and directions of the witnesses. This matches very well with the 20+ reports that we’ve received.”

A map of Texas showing where the sighting reports were coming from based on MUFON reports. (Credit: Cassidy Nicholas)

MUFON Associate Producer Cassidy Nicholas produced a list of the 29 MUFON cases filed by July 14, 2014. The MUFON investigation continues.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/circle-ufo-caught-video-near-galveston-sea-wall-video/28461/feed0Chris Carter producing new series about Area 51 – Spacing Out! Episode 69http://www.openminds.tv/chris-carter-producing-new-series-area-51-spacing-episode-69/26791
http://www.openminds.tv/chris-carter-producing-new-series-area-51-spacing-episode-69/26791#commentsFri, 04 Apr 2014 15:21:00 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=26791The X-Files creator Chris Carter is producing a new television series about the mysterious military installation Area 51. Jason and Maureen discuss that and other UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!

The X-Files creator Chris Carter is producing a new television series about the mysterious military installation Area 51. Jason and Maureen discuss that and other UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!

]]>Witnesses photographed a triangle shaped UFO in the sky above Amarillo, Texas on Monday, March 10.

Triangle UFO over Texas. (Credit: Dean Muskett)

Triangle UFO over Texas. (Credit: Steve Douglass)

Defense technology blog Ares on the Aviation Week website explains that the craft was photographed by both Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett. This mysterious object was reportedly accompanied by two other craft. According to Aviation Week‘s defense expert Bill Sweetman, Douglass, who monitors aircraft radio communication, picked up some apparently related voice traffic, suggesting that the unidentifiable aircraft were piloted rather than remote-controlled.

Sweetman believes the photographed UFO is likely a classified military plane. He explains,

The photos tell us more about what the mysterious stranger isn’t than what it is. The size is very hard to determine, for example, although the image size at contrailing height suggests that it is bigger than an X-47B. However, the basic shape – while it resembles Boeing’s Blended Wing Body studies or the Swift Killer Bee/Northrop Grumman Bat unmanned air system – is different from anything known to have flown at full size, lacking the notched trailing edge of Northrop Grumman’s full-size designs.

So, like the Metro speculates, “As the US Air Force are unlikely to be forthcoming with information, the flying objects will almost certainly remain ‘unidentified’ (probably not aliens, though, sorry).”